The Obelisk Presents: Tortuga Eastern European Tour Dates
Boogie fuzz, heavy doom, meet the road. Poland’s Tortuga, for not the first time ever but for the first time in a while, are headed out on a tour of Eastern Europe. They’ll leave home in Poland ahead of an Oct. 13 start and head into Slovakia, Hungary (I recently saw pictures of the village outside Budapest where my family emigrated from; some green grass on those hills), Slovenia, Bulgaria, Greece, and so on.
When it comes to this kind of thing, an ‘Obelisk Presents’ situation, I always feel like I need to justify presenting the shows even though I won’t be there to see any of them. You know what? Screw that. I support, wholeheartedly, good bands getting out and bringing their wares to the masses, and with this stupid, increasingly-awful timeline we live in, all the more so. Tortuga‘s 2020 album, Deities, rules. I missed it when it came out — see “2020” and “awful timeline” earlier in this sentence — but will close out a week with it eventually, and it was on the strength of that album and the band’s touring that the band signed to Napalm Records last year.
What that means is, hopefully, this won’t be the last you hear from them and this won’t be the last time they get out. Awesome. New release in 2023? Maybe. They hint at new material in the tour announcement below, and if that’s a thing that happens, I’ll do all I can not to miss out. If you’re in an area where these shows are happening, or within a reasonable or unreasonable traveling distance, I hope you’ll do the same.
Dig:
TORTUGA – EASTERN EUROPEAN TOUR 2022
Dear occult doom worshipers, Mammoth supporters and heavy rock enthusiasts, the time have come to finally take Tortuga on the road!
It is with great pleasure that we are embarking along our favorite Polish doom lords on a tour, crossing all of Eastern Europe, for a series of killer shows.
Tortuga will present a mix of older and new material, celebrating the success of “Deities” and getting ready for their upcoming album.
Pick your closest stop out of the dates below and witness history in the making.
TORTUGA live:
13.10 Kulturak Klub Bratislava SK
14.10 Szabadkikoto Pecs HU
15.10 Channel Zero Ljubljana SL
16.10 Vintage Bar Zagreb HR
18.10 Singles Bar Sofia BG
19.10 Rover Bar Thessaloniki GR
20.10 Death Disco Athens GR
21.10 Mandrakoukos Ptolemaida GR
22.10 Nostos Live Xanthi, GR
23.10 Download Bar Plovdic BG
25.10 Expirat Bucharest RO
26.10 Flying Circus Cluj Napoca RO
27.10 Aurora Budapest HU
28.10 Colloseum Club Kosice SK
TORTUGA are:
Marmur – Drums
Heszu – Bass
Pablo – Guitars, Vocals
Kłosu – Guitars, Synths, Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/tortugapl
https://www.instagram.com/tortuga_band/
https://tortugapl.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/napalmrecords
http://label.napalmrecords.com/
